Every year around this time, the NHL does what they call a player media tour.

This happens in Las Vegas.

Players are photographed.

They're put into videos, mostly promotional stuff for the league.

As a result, it tends to be only the most prominent players.

Sidney Crosby's participated in this in the past.

He participated in this again yesterday, and he did an interview that, well, yeah, same crap narrative.

Good morning to you.

Good Wednesday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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I've gone on diatribes on this program more than once about the way the Canadian media operates.

The lack of editorial veracity to a lot of what it is that they report, a big, big part of what they report.

But more than that, it's the impact that it has on hockey fans in general that's outsized.

For the simple reason that in the summertime, most U.S.-based outlets will have their hockey

writers do other stuff.

That's not the case at D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, where Taylor Haas is our full-time beatwriter

365 days a year covering the penguins.

But it is the case at almost everywhere else.

Not an exaggeration on my part. It's just how it works, especially in this era of shrinking newsrooms in general. So the Canadian media is going to

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